The N Word Revisited: Racism in 21st Century America - Paperback

by Henry L. N. Anderson (Author)

Picking up the mantle where he left off in his 1960 discourse in You and Race-A Christian Reflects, Dr. Anderson calls our attention to some critical realities which prudence urges each of us to take due note of, with a sense of urgency! Without pointing fingers or taking sides, he takes us straight to our present-day realities: All of us born in America, are "born into racism," he declares. And that is so because for the past five centuries all aspects of life in America have been experienced juxtaposed against the reality of 'preference based on race.' That makes all of us racists-by birth and by attrition. This book should be read by everyone who has any concern for the events and views being expressed daily in our media and being lived out on our streets. Even "Wall Street."

Author Biography

Dr. Henry L.N. Anderson grew up in Savannah but left GA at the age of 16, headed for a new life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School for Boys, winning a Board of Education four-year scholarship to college. He entered Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana as a pre-medical student, transferred and graduated from Cheyney University of Pennsylvania as a teacher. He was accepted as a candidate for the Episcopal priesthood by the Divinity School at Yale University, New Haven, CT., where in 1958, he met and became life-long friends with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Arriving in Los Angeles on September 7, 1959 he later formed Western Publishers, Ltd., and was the first publisher ever to accept, finance, and publish a book (She Walks in Beauty, a novel) written by the famous 'Negro Historian, ' J. A. Rogers. In 1960, he self-published his own first Small Book(TM), You and Race: A Christian Reflects. He later had a private audience with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India, when she described Jesus' life mission in five words: "Jesus did it unto them." In 1974, with some twenty family, friends, and students he co-founded City University Los Angeles (CULA(R)), in response to the Carnegie Commission's Report that American higher education needed a system that would afford mature adults the opportunity to spend "less time and more options" for completing a college degree. In 1986, he was introduced to Natural Hygiene and became a vegetarian, later elevating to a fruitarian, and published his first book on "the science of healthful living" in the same year. Now, some fifteen published books later, he gives us The N-Word Revisited. Still jogging three miles "at least twice a week," working out and pursuing a Natural Hygiene lifestyle, he celebrates his 83rd birthday on May 23, 2017, with no 'medical complaints.' When asked about his personal physician and medical treatments, he jokingly quips, "All my doctors are dead!"